Survival Tips for Empaths and Sensitive People

Survival strategies for empaths to embrace their highly sensitive nature without absorbing other people’s negative energy

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Like many empathic children, I never fit in.Growing up, I felt like an alien on earth waiting to be transported back to my real home in the stars. I was an only child, so I spent a lot of time by myself. I had no one to relate to who could understand my sensitivities. No one seemed to be like me.

I remember sitting in my front yard looking up at the universe and hoping that a spaceship would take me home.

My parents, who were both physicians (I come from a family of twenty-five physicians) told me, “Sweetheart, toughen up; get a thicker skin,” which I didn’t want or even know how to do. I couldn’t go to crowded malls or parties; I’d walk in feeling fine and walk out exhausted, dizzy, anxious, or suffering from some ache or pain I didn’t have before.

What I didn’t know back then was that everyone has a subtle